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MESSAGE 




THE MA YOK 



CITY OF WASHINGTON, 



TllAKSMlTTED TO THE TwO BoiKDS OF THE CiTY COXTNCIh, 

July 19, 18G1), and the 



Reports of the Water Registrar, Board of 
Fire Commissioners, Superintendent 
OF the Fire x\larm Telegraph, 
and Intendant OF Wash- 
ington Asylum. 



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chronicle; print 

WASHINGTON, D. C. 




MESSAGE ■ 



THE MATOE 



CITY OF WASHINGTON, 



Tkansmitted to the Two Boards op the City Cottncil, 
July 19, 18GS), and the 



Reports of the Water Registrar, Board of 

Fire Com:viissioners, Superintendent 

OF the Fire Alarm Telegraph, 

AND InTENDANT OF WASH- 
INGTON Asylum. 



CHRONICLE PRINT, 

WASHINGTON, V. C. 



MESSAGE OE THE MAYOR. 



Mayor's Office, City Hall, 

Washington, D C, Jaly 19, lb69. 
To the Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council : 

Gentlemen: — In accordance with custom, and with the re- 
quirements of the charter of the city, I have the honor of trans- 
mitting for your consideration, the following communication 
relative to the condition of the city and its affairs during the 
fiscal year just closed, and of calling jour attention to such 
measures as, in my opinion, requires the action of the Councils 
recently installed into office. 

We have enjoyed a season of uninterrupted and unexampled 
prosperity, which has had the natural effect to increase our 
wealth and population, and give an impetus to improvements 
and business that cannot fail to be gratifying to every citizen, 
as well as every well-wisher of the nation's capital. In no one 
year have so many first-class buildings been erected, nor so 
many public improvements been made within the city limits as 
in the fiscal year just closed. This has silenced the declarations 
of many, that in consequence of our proximity to the great 
battle ground of the rebellion, and the sympathy of some of . our 
people with the South, a clamor would be raised against retain- 
ing this as the seat of the General Government, which would 
result in its removal to one of the great cities of the West. 
Now that its permanency as the capital of the nation appears 
assured, it behooves us to make the most of the advantages we 
possess over other cities, from this as well as other causes, and 
to strive to keep pace with the progress and spirit of this en- 
lightened age. To do this, much will be required of the 
Councils, but the results will amply repay for every dacriflce 
that any or all of us are called upon to make. 



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STREET IMPROVEMENTS. 

There have been graded and graveled during the 3'ear, of the 
streets — 

Graded and Graveled. Graded Onlj. 

In the First Ward, - - - - 30 squares. 60 squares. 

In the Second Ward, - - - - 33 " 23 

In the Third Ward, - - - - 6 " " 

In the Fourth Ward, - - - - 10 " " 

In the Fifth Ward, - ... 8 " 

In the Sixth Ward, ----- 9 " " 

In the Seventh Ward, . - - 8 " 46 

Total, ------ 104 " 129 '•' 

Of sidewalks and gutters, there have been curbed, graded, 
and paved — 

In the First Ward, 51 squares. 

In the Second Ward, - - - - IV 

In the Third Ward, 10 

In the Fourth Ward, H 

In the Fifth Ward, ---.-.-..- 26 

In the Sixth Ward, - - ... 32 

In the Seventh Ward, 24 

Total, - - m 

Number of squares of streets paved in the city, 10; number 
of intersections paved in the city, 6. 

Number of bridges erected and repaired, 13; number of alleys 
graded and paved, 6. 

The filthy condition of the streets, gutters, and alleys at the 
time of the appointment of the i)resent ward commissioners, 
rendered it necessary to employ a large force to cleanse and 
purify them, in order to prevent disease and pestilence. I doubt 
if ever before a city was left by an administration as a legacy 
to its successor in such a state as was this in the month of June, 
1868, when I was inaugurated. To clean and put in respectable 
order was the first duty devolving on the new administration 
Of course, a heavy expense was necessary, but it was accom- 



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plished ; and it is a fact admitted by all, that the city, durinsr 
the past year, has been kept cleaner and in a better sanitary 
condition than ever before. It is hoped and ))elieved that the 
expense on this account, now that the old filth has been re- 
moved, will be comparatively, this year, much lessened. 

FINANCIAL STATISTICS. 

The revenues of the cit}^ for the fiscal year have been — 

From ten-year bonds issued, - - - - . - - $38t,000 00 
From taxes on real and personal property to May 

31, ----- 570,570 64 

From taxes for month of June, not reported by 

collector, estimated, - - - . - . . 50,000 00 

From markets and licenses, 162,129 03 

From water taxes, - - - - 49,369 67 

From special taxes, redemption and surplus funds, 241,394,6^ 

From all other sources, . - 29,138 25 

Total, §1,489,602,28 

The expenditures have been — 

For salaries of officers, $34,119 40 

For expenses of Councils, ------- 30,081 53 

For Police Department, 68,354 94 

For station-houses, including fuel, ----- 3,582 89 
For schools and school-houses, including loan of 
previous year, with interest on the same, 

($62,469,43.; 241,376 72 

For Fire Department, - - - 26,263 23 

For Water Department, 33,908 14 

For Asylum, -------.---- 18,961 15 

For gas-lamps, repairs, and lamp-lighters, - - 22,055 53 

For markets, including improvements, - - - - 10,801 91 

For grading and graveling streets, - - - - 64,715 80 

For flag footways, ----- 37,446 17 

For bridges, erection and repairs of - - - - 11,118 94 

For repairs of streets, - - 31,87172 

For sewers, - - - - 3,971 91 

For cleaning streets, alleys, and gutters, - - - 60,324 89 



For improvement of City Hall, ----- 2,620 15 

For interest on funded debt, 59,026 92 

For payment of floating debt, in bonds, - - - 387,000 00 
For payment, in cash, small fractional balances 

not included above, - - 6,951 69 

For sinking fund, ten-year bonds, 10,565 32 

For special tax, redemption and surplus funds, 234,912 00 

For all other purposes, including Board of Health, 30,614 27 

Total, ------ $1,490,645 82 



Excess of expenditures over receipts, - - - 1,043 54 

The above includes payments in cash on indebtedness incur- 
red by former administrations, as follows : 

Indebtedness matured previous to July 1, 1868, 

$161,287 05 
Indebtedness matured since July 1, 1868, incur- 
red by previous legislation, principally con- 
tracted for, but not matured, - - . _ . 95 030 84 



Total cash payments on old liabilities, 256,317 89 
The estimated receipts for the current year, exclusive of water 
and special taxes and trust funds, will be — 
From taxes, at ($1 40 on $100), ------ $1,000 000 

From markets, licenses, and all other sources, - 290,000 



Total, ------ 1,290,000 

The estimated expenditures necessary to meet current expen- 
ses, and complete such improvements as are demanded by the 
people, are — 

For salaries of officers, - - $36,000 

For expenses of Councils, -------- 32,000 

For Police Department, including new station- 
houses, - - - . - - 75,000 

For schools and school-houses, including new 

site,' and buildings, 250,000 

For Fire Department, including the purchase of 
two new steam fire engines, erection of 
houses, &c., - - - 50,000 



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For Asylum. --...-..-■■ 20,000 

For gas-lamps, repairs, &c., -■.--- 15,000 

For markets, --.--.-----.. 10,000 

For grading and graveling streets, 80,000 

For flag footways, . . - . - 40,000 

For bridges, including three over Tiber creek, - 40,000 

For repairs of streets, - . . . - 30,000 

For sewers, including cost of reconstructing that 

on Fourteenth street, 2?, 000 

For cleaning streets, alleys, and gutters, - - 60,000 

For interest on funded debt, - - 89,000 

For sinking fund, - - - - 50,000 

For all other expenses, --------- 60,000 



Total - 1,022,000 

Leaving a balance of $268,000, which will be amply sufficient 
to pay all existing liabilities, and leave to the credit of the 
Corporation on the 30th of June, 18t0, the sum of $100,000. 

The rate of taxation above indicated ($1 40 on the $100) 
may appear somewhat high, and the sum to be raised by it 
more than is actually necessary. But it is less, much less, than 
that paid by other cities more favorably circumstanced than 
we now are. We need more improvements in our streets, more 
of which should be opened; more bridges and flag footways are 
imperatively demanded; more roadways must be paved, the 
intersections of which cost large sums of money; more sewers 
should and must be constructed immediately, the laterals of 
which, with the drops, man-holes, and traps, are a heavy tax on 
the ward funds. The Fourteenth street sewer requires to be 
relaid from end to end ; wells and pumps are clamored for all 
over the city; a station-house should be erected iu every ward, 
and comfortably furnished for our policemen ; school houses 
Iniilt where necessary, in order to save the thousands paid for 
rent of inconvenient and poorly adapted school-rooms. The 
sea-wall on the west side of South Washington should be re- 
moved outward to the river channel, and the space filled in, so 
as to give place to wharves on the river front ; gas must be ex- 



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tended on most of the streets ; the people who are without 
light and who pay as much for lighting other streets as they 
who derive the benefit of such light, clamoring and constantly 
complaining about it, and other extraordinary expenditures, 
which none but those who are recpiired to audit and pay the 
bills would ever think of, arc requisite, which amount to a very 
large sum during the year. 

But these improvements more than pay the cost of construction 
in the enhancement of the value of real estate in the city, which 
comes back to the tax-payers in this way four-fold, to say noth- 
ing of the additional comfort, convenience and satisfaction thej 
afford. Who does not know that this city (whether justly or 
unjustly does not change the fact) has the reputation of being 
a century behind others of a like population in all that relates 
to public improvements and progress, when, as the capital of the 
Republic, the resort of people of all nations, we should be fore- 
most in these things ? To effect this object, money is required, 
and the only way to obtain it is through taxation Besides all 
this, we have thousands of mechanics and laborers unemployed, 
many of whose families are suffering for bread. We should 
strive to give these employment as far as possible to make 
them and their families comfortable and contented, by doing 
which much that tends to vice and crime will be destroyed, and 
the morals of the people improved. And how can this be so 
profitably done as by putting the idle poor, who are willing and 
anxious to work, but are totally unable to get it, to performing 
labor on the streets ? The result will prove the wisdom of such 
a course, not only by what is above stated, but by the reduction 
of the number in our jail and almhouse, and a comparative re- 
duction in the cost of maintaining those institutions, for noth- 
ing so much as idleness begets ioimorality and crime. 

The funded debt of the city is as follows : 
Certificates of 5 per cent, stock issued under act 

of August 19, 1828, $54,807 00 

Certificates of 6 per cent, stock issued under act 

of October 25, 1843, ------ - 085,517 38 

Chesapeake and Ohio canal bonds, - - . - 48,800 00 



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Washington and Alexandria railroad bonds, 

guaranteed by the city, - ----- 18,500 00 

Water stock, - - - - 155,000 00 

Ten-year bonds issued under act of October 17, 

1868, ------------ 387,000 00 



Total funded debt, - - $1,349,624 38 
Of the floating debt existing *on the 30th of 

June, 1868, authorized to be paid by the 

ten-year bonds, a large proportion of which 

is in suit, the holders refusing to accept 

bonds, there is estimated to remain out- 
standing the sum of - - $100,000 00 

And there has been paid out of the revenue of 

the fiscal year just closed, of the same debt, 

in cash, the sum of 161,287 05 

Amount chiefly contracted for but not matured, 

July 1, 1868, paid also in cash, - - - - 95,030 84 

Which, added to the amount of bonds issued, - 387,000 00 

And bonds not delivered June 30, - - - - 18,650 00 

With fractional balances still due, - - . . 3,418 49 



Makes the total floating indebtedness existing 

on the 30th June, 1868, ------ $765,386 38 

The amount in bank to the credit of the interest and sinking 
fund for the redemption of the ten-year bonds was, on tbe 30th 
of last month, $70,565 32, which is a larger sum than is neces- 
sary to be raised, the law requiring only one-tenth of the amount 
of the bonds issued, and the interest on the whole, to be col- 
lected in each year. The rate of taxation on this account can 
therefore be materially reduced the present year. 

A large portion of the water stock falls due the present year, 
and the entire amount will soon be payable. No provision has 
been made by our predecessors in office for the payment of any 
portion of this debt, and the whole burden of it falls uujustly 
on us. There is now statiding to the credit of the water fund 
the sum of $19,530 39, which is more than sufiicient to pay the 



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year's portion of the debt. The remainder will have to be pro- 
vided for without delay, and I recommend that authority be 
given me to anticipate the revenues from the water fund to 
enable me to redeem the stock as it is presented. 

By the report of the water registrar, transmitted herewith, it 
will be seen that the amount of water taxes outstanding are : 

Due and payable, $25,221 11 

Yet to fall due, ----- 58,01838 



Total, $83,240 09 

The entire receipts of the water fund since the 
introduction of Potomac water, exclusive 
of loans, have been, as nearly as can be as- 
certained, $286,823 56 

The loans have been, - - - 1*73,500 00 



Total, 460,323 5G 

The entire expense of the distribution of water 

since its introduction has been, - - - - 438,583 18 



Balance of receipts, including loans, over ex- 
penditures, -------.-- $21,740 38 

Actual expenses over actual receipts, $151, "ISO 62; de- 
ficit, if all outstanding water taxes were paid, $67,519 53. 

POTOMAC WATER. 

Much complaint has been made during the past few years of 
a deficiency in the supply of water, especially in the more ele- 
vated portions of the city. This defect arises from the fact 
that the water-mains leading from the reservoir to the city are 
not of sufficient size to allow of the flow of the necessary quan. 
tity through them. There are now two mains, and the only 
permanent remedy is to provide another, or more than one, as 
the case may require, which will involve a large expenditure of 
money. I recommend that some action be taken in regard to 
this matter, in order that a full and ample supply of water, so 
necessary to the health, comfort, and convenience of our people, 
may be obtained. The increasing demand for the Potomac 



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water, and the extension of water-mains to all parts of the city, 
thns increasing its consumption and the dependence upon it, 
render this a subject of vital importance. 

It is with much regret that I am called, by my sense of duty 
to the corporation, to state to you that the late Water Regis- 
trar, although called upon on several occasions to render a 
statement of his account with the water fund during the last 
several years of his administration, has still failed to do so. And 
the present incumbent of the office has found it impossible to 
ascertain the true condition of such accounts when he entered 
on his duties, there being in the office no books or papers from 
which that information could be obtained. 

In order that it may be shown to the satisfaction of the peo- 
ple, as well as of Congress, the exact amount that has been col- 
lected and disbursed on account of the water fund since the in. 
troduction of the Potomac water into the city, I suggest that 
measures be taken at once to obtain from the late Registrar a 
true statement of his accounts during his official term ; and in 
this connection I may, with propriety, refer to section 5 of the 
act of the Corporation of June 2, 1859, and call the attention of 
the Councils to the duties required of them by that act. 

OFFICERS OF TdE CORPORATION. 

As a general rule, the officers of the Corporation have per- 
formed their duties faithfully, and with satisfaction to the 
people. That, with rare exceptions, all have done the best they 
could for the interest of the city I am fully convinced. AVhere 
such has been the case it would appear invidious to discriminate; 
but, as the bookkeeper and clerk to the Mayor have been under 
ray own eye, and I have been personally cognizant of their 
fidelity, ability, and the very heavy labors required of them, I 
take the liberty to state that, in my opinion, they are inade- 
quately paid for their services, and I therefore recommend that 
their salaries be increased — that of the bookkeeper to $2,000, 
and that of the clerk to $1,500 per annum. I very much doubt 
whether any other clerks in this city perform as arduous and 
responsible duties as they for anything like the compensation 
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

The success of onr public schools and the improvements of 
the system of teaching and discipline are causes of congvatula" 
tion. With a little more experience on the part of some of our 
teachers, with more of an interest in the education of their 
children evinced by the parents of such as attend the schools, 
and with the guidance of an experienced general superinten- 
dent, such as we now have, it is to be hoped that our public 
schools will in a very short time equal, if not excel, as they 
should, those of any other city in the Union. In any measure 
calculated to promote the efficiency of these schools, and to ex- 
tend the system so that every child, white and colored, rich and 
poor, vi^ithin our limits, shall have the benefit of a good educa- 
tion, you will find me ready and anxious to co-operate with you. 

More school-houses are required in different sections of the 
city. The exorbitant rents paid for poor and ill-adapted 
school-rooms would soon cover the expense of erecting good, 
plain, substantial buildings where they are needed. I cannot 
too strongly commend the sulyect to your favorable considera- 
tion. 

The total receipts on account of the school and school-house 
funds for the fiscal year were— 

From taxes, ....--- $156,722 16 
Prom general fund (deficit ofl8G(5-7) ■ - - 10,907 36 



Total, - - - - $167,629 52 
Expended during the same period, through I'rea- 

surer of the public schools — 

For teachers' salaries, ----- $59,898 41 

Music teachers, ... - - 1,575 00 

Care of school-rooms, - - - - 3,907 36 

Rent of school-rooms, - - - - 16,774 76 

Fuel and stove fixtures, - - - - 6,153 64 

Contingent expenses, - - - - 29,225 45 

Salaries of Secretary and Treasurer, - - 500 00 

Contingent expenses of the Board, - - 2,279 57 

Total, - - - . $120,314 19 



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Through Mayor's office — 

For Franklin school-house. ... - $35,585 82 

School-house in 4th district, . - . 6,6t1 00 

Incidentals, ...... 512 81 

Colored schools, ..... 38,683 84 

Loan of June 8, 1868, with interest, charged up 

at bank, • - - - - - - 62,469 43 



Total, .... $264,243 Oi) 
Of this amount was paid on previous indebtedness, in cash, 
$101,814 78; in bonds, $22,868 75; total, $130,683 53. 

HIGH AND NORMAL SCHOOL. 

The early establishment of a scientific high and normal school 
has become a necessity. Upon the completion of the Franklin 
school building, rooms for such a school could be set apart 
therein, to be used until the finances of the city Avill justify the 
erection of a building exclusively for the purpose. The mani- 
fest advantages resulting from such an institution lead me to 
hope that by the time of the opening of the public schools for 
the next scholastic year authority will be given to establish one 
on such a basis as will give to it the utmost efficiency and use- 
fulness. 

THE COLORED SCHOOLS. 

The schools for colored children in this city, with some ex- 
ceptions, have been maintained during the past year with a 
considerable degree of efficiency ; but they might have attained 
much higher excellence and success had they been under the 
management of experienced and well-qualified directors. In my 
judgment, the time has arrived when these schools should be 
incorporated with our other public schools, placed under the 
same management, be conducted on the same system, and share 
impartially in all respects the same advantages. The Board of 
Trustees of Public Schools should consist of both white and 
colored members, in due proportions, and no difference should 
be allowed in the qualifications of teachers on acoount of the 
color of the pupils. The exigency which required the temporary 
creation of a separate board of trustees for colored schools has 



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now happily passed away. It is much to be regretted that the 
action of Congress at its last session, providing for the termina- 
tion of this separate system, should have been defeated by the 
veto of Andrew Johnson, tlirough the influence and misguided 
efforts of a few of the very class for whose benefit it was in- 
tended. 

The distinction of color is no longer recognized in our charter 
nor at the ballot-l)ox, in the courts of jusdce, the lecture-room, 
ihe hall of public amusement, the public conveyance, nor in 
the City Councils. It should be eliminated as speedily as pos- 
sible from our school system. Tlie breaking down of all caste dis- 
tinctions is one of the great missions of the American people, and 
the sooner ail classes "conquer their prejudices" and accept the 
situation, the better for all concerned. All children should be 
educated as the children of American citizens, the future sover- 
eigns of the Republic, and should be taught to ignore all class 
distinctions. Nov^'^here can this be done so effectually as in the 
common school, by the daily exercises of the school room, 
where merit and achievement only give precedence. And, on 
the other hand, by no method will the animosities and pecu- 
liarities of race and caste be so surely perpetuated and intensi- 
fied as by the keeping up of separate systems of education in 
our schools. 

That all right minded citizens should agree and co-operatein 
this important matter is eminently desirable. The character of 
all our schools should be, and by proper efforts might be, 
so elevated that no "contamination," but only the improvement 
of all classes would result from such association. But in view 
of the differences of opinion and the bitter, foolish prejudices 
which have existed, and to some extent still exist, it is a ques- 
tion how soon and how far the mingling of races in the same 
school can be effected without causing the withdrawal of some 
of those who most need education. In my judgment, this may 
eb safeh'left to the wise discretion of a board of trustees con- 
stituted as I have already suggested, and having at heart the 
best interests of all classes. 

Experience has already shown that the difificullies in the v/ay 



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are not so great as many imagine. White parents of respecta- 
bility and culture have urged the admission of their children 
into colored schools where superior teachers have been em- 
ployed, for the sake of the higher advantages there afforded. 
It is believed that were all the schools placed under one board 
properly constituted, and were a part of the schools designated 
as open to both classes, care being taken to provide teachers of 
the highest qualifications, numbers of white as well as colored 
citizens would, voluntarily and as a matter of principle, place 
their children in such schools, at least until the experiment 
should be fairly tested. And it is further believed that the re- 
sults would be such that, without violence, popular excitement 
or the withdrawal of any considerable number of children from 
school, the barrier of caste would quietly melt away; and all 
the schools be speedily thrown open to all who need them 
Then would our school system be established on the basis of a 
broad and impartial nationality, which knows not race nor 
color, but only Americans and children of a common Parent. 

I therefore recommend that rneasures be taken to represent 
this matter before Congress at its next session, with a view to 
obtaining such action as shall place all our schools under one 
management, with discretionary power as to the mingling of 
the classes heretofore separated. This subject cannot longer 
be evaded, as a bill is pending in Congress, with every proba- 
bility of its becoming a law, which contemplates and requires 
that all tbe schools of this District shall be open for the recep. 
tion and instruction of pupils without distinction of class. 

These colored schools, and the expense attending their support, 
have grown to a magnitude not anticipated at their beginnin,'"'. 
The revenue at first amounted to a little over $300 per annum 
Their board of trustees have been paid out of the city treasury 
about $40,000 the past year, and the amount will be largely in 
creased the comiug year. This is the only revenue for the sup- 
port of these schools, and the corporation has no voice in their 
government, is not consulted in regard to the appointment of 
trustees or teachers, nor are the trustees accountable for their 
action or for the disbursement of this large sum to the Govern- 



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ment or the Corporation. Indeed, as the case now stands, they 
might appropriate the money to any other use, and there is no 
law authorizing the city or any other power to compel them to 
account for it. If this separate system is to be continued, I 
recommend that Congress be applied to for the passage of an 
act requiring the trustees to enter into bond in a sufficient sum, 
with security satisfactory to the Mayor, for the proper applica- 
tion of the funds, and also requiring them to make an annual 
report to the city authorities, giving a detailed statement of 
their operations. 

ASYLUM* AND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 

Fur a detailed statement of the expenses of the Asylum, 
and of the Fire Department, I beg leave to refer to the reports 
of the commissioners thereof, which are herewith transmitted. 

The United States Government having withdrawn the three 
steam fire-engines in use here since the war, a necessity exists 
for supplying their places by the Corporation. Arrangements 
have already been made for the purchase of two engines, and I 
recommend that authority be given for purchasing another 
without delay. Proper protection to property renders this ab- 
solutely necessary. The Government having a very large 
amount of property here requiring protection from fire should, 
in common justice, pay its portion of the expense of procuring 
the proper engines, and maintaining a Fire Department in the 
city. 

HOUSE OP INDUSTRY, ETC. 

I ask the attention of the Councils to the necessity of estab- 
lishing a house of correction and industry for juvenile offenders, 
and a home for the aged and friendless in our midst. Is^o other 
city in the United States, so far as I know and believe, having 
a population so large as this, has so little accommodation for 
the poor and unfortunate. A school-ship moored in our river 
might, like those in Boston, serve to reclaim vicious and unruly 
boys, who, by a proper course of training and study, would be 
come qualified for seamen on Government vessels or merchant 
ships, or for any other respectable occupation. It is a disgrace 
to our city that we have no refuge for these classes except our 



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poor-house and jail, where they are brought in contact with 
hardened villains, and become as wicked as they. If the city 
would take the lead in this matter, and commence the erection 
of proper buildings, I have no doubt that Congress would, as 
it justly should, lend a helping hand and appropriate its share* 
toward completing the work. Let the Councils make the ex 
periment ; Congress will do its share if we show a determina 
tion to do what we ought for ourselves 

A NEW .TAIL AND A POLICE COURT. 

I beg leave again to call the atcention of the Councils to the 
absolute necessity of erecting anew jail in this District, such as 
is provided for in the bill now pending in Congress. Although, 
under the wise management of the able and efficient officer now 
in charge of that institution it has been brought to as high 
a state of perfection as can possibly be reached in such a build- 
ing, still, the reasons existing at the time of my last message, 
one year ago, for a new structure are now in force, and I cannot 
foo urgently recommend that the attention of Congress be early 
called to this subject It is a discredit to the District that we 
have no better place for confining persons charged with offenses, 
all classes of whom, without regard to age, sex, or condition, 
are necessarily thrown together in this worse than pest-house, 
there to concoct and indulge in schemes of vice and villainy, till 
relieved by the slow and uncertain process of our crude and 
unwholesome code of criminal law, most of which was enacted 
more than a century ago. 

We also need a police court for the speedy trial oi oifend- 
ers- A bil' is now pcndiug in Congress establishing such a 
court, which would, if passed into a law, afford relief, and be 
productive of the happiest results. rhe Councils should press 
the importance of these matters on our national legislature, 
and, if possible, procure the passage of the bills referred to at 
the next session. 

RAISING THE GRADK OP PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. 

The great difficulty of properly draining and seweiing prop- 
erty on Pennsylvania avenue, between Ninth street west and 
the Capitol gate, suggests the propriety of raising the grade of 

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that avenue sufficiently above tide water in time of floods 
to prevent its overflow and the filling of basements and cellars 
with water. This would involve the holders of property and 
the city in a large expense; but it must be done sooner or later, 
and it can be accomplished now at a less cost than at any future 
time after the buildings and improvements to be aftected by the 
change shall have become more valuable. And it is believed 
that the increased value of the property will moie than cover 
the cost; besides, it will render the drainage and sewerage 
perfect by making the descent from the high ground north of the 
avenue to the canal regular, and prevent the bursting of sewers 
by reason of pressure of water through the almost level ground 
south of the avenue, and the "backing up" of the water from 
the canal into the sewers. 

Of course, the authority of Congress will be required to do 
this work, and the Government will pay its share of the cost. 

This may be regarded by some as visionary, but a full inves- 
tigation of the subject will satisfy any practical person of its 
utility and necessity. Although the proposed change will in- 
volve a heavy expenditure of money, the advantages to be de- 
rived from it will amply compensate the property -holders and 
the city for the outlay. Other cities have expended millions 
for raising the grades of and widening streets, where the neces- 
sity was nothing compared with this ; and the experiment in 
every case, so far as is known, has not only proved a public 
benefit, but has resulted in an enhancement of the value of the 
property affected by it more than doubly sufficient to cover the 
cost. 

This matter is submitted for your consideration If you ap- 
prove the suggestion, I recommend that application be made to 
Congress at the next session for authority and aid to effect the 
desired object. 

WASHINGTON CANAL. 

T have again to call the attention of the Councils to the con- 
dition of the Washington canal. The opinion I have heretofore 
expressed on that subject remains unchanged ; but if anything 
better can be suggested, I am ready to assent to and approve it. 



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And if it be the desire of the people of the city that it shall be 
cleaned out and rendered navigable, and their representatives 
so decide, it will be necessary for them to impose a special tax 
of at least $300,000 on the assessable property of the city to 
cover the expense, the same to be provided for this year ; or 
that sum w^ill have to be diverted from the proposed, and, as I 
think, more necessary, legitimate and profitable work of opening 
and repairing streets. We can employ just so many laborers 
with the money we raise, and if they work on the canal others 
cannot be employed on the streets. So far, then, as the laborer 
is concerned, it certainly makes no difference with him whethei- 
the canal is ever cleaned or not, unless the people are willing 
to pay enough extra tax to foot the bills. Will the tax-payers 
assent to this ? It is for the Councils to determine, but I opine 
they will look well to their pockets before making an investment 
on which they can never hope to realize a dividend or the least 
profit. I can never consent that this property be alienated by 
the Oorporation and placed at the tender mercy of a private 
company. 

The plan proposed in my last message, and more recently in 
effect by the late Superintendent of Sewers, &c., to arch the 
canal and convert it into a main sewer across the city, is doubtless 
the most feasible plan of disposing of this troublesome and vex- 
atious subject ; and, as the reclaimed land will more than cover 
the cost, I confess that I am unable to see tlie force of the objec- 
tions urged against it. In its present condition the canal is un- 
questionably a festering nuisance, and I trust ti:at some action 
may betaken without delay looking to an abatement of the evil. 
The office of Commissioner of the canal I deem unnecessary. 
The duties of such an officer can be performed by the Superin- 
tendent of Sewers, &c., and I recommend that authority be 
given him for that purpose. 

RIVEE AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENT. 

Our river channels and harbor should at once be improved. 
We have on both sides of the city a sufficient depth of water to 
float almost any vessel. Miles of water front, which in any 
other city would be converted into a mine of wealth, are en- 



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tirely neglected, and there is not a wharf worthy the name at 
which a vessel can receive or discharge a cargo. This can only 
be accounted for by the fact that our city, until a recent date, 
was cursed with an institution that >. lighted everything it 
touched as by fire. But that time has passed ; anew era has 
dawned upon us, and progress, enterprise, energy and activity 
should prevail in lieu of the dead past. We must keep pace 
with the ;:rogressive spirit of the age, or go into bankruptcy 
and wind up. 

REMOVAL OF SEA WALL. 

I recommend that measures be immediately taken to remove 
the sea wall on the west side of the Island to the channel, and 
that the space be filled in, thus reclaiming a large area of 
valuable ground which can be used, rented, or sold for wharf 
sites, and made to yield a large i-evenue to the city, as well as 
to add materially to its commerce and other business Congress 
will undoubtedly aid in the improvement of our river and harbor, 
when we show a disposition to do what we can to effect that 
necessary object. This aid has been given in the States. Is it 
not unjust to withhold it here where Congress has exclusive 
jurisdiction? 

ADVERTISING THE TAX LIST. 

A great cause of complaint with our tax payers who are not 
fortunate enough to have the means of paying their taxes when 
due, is the heavy cost of advertising and sale. As this profits 
neither the lot-holder nor the Corporation, but goes to enrich 
others having no claim on either, I suggest that the law be so 
changed as to avuid it as far as possible. The wisdom of the 
(^^ouncils will enable them to devise some method to abate this 
great evil, and save our property holders from such an im- 
position. 

In the meantime, the very large amount of taxes uncollected 
calls for some action that will compel such as are able to pay 
and will not, to discharge their liabilities on this account 
promptly. 

There are on the books of the Collector's office general taxes 
uncollected, as follows : 



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Pi-ior to 1866, running back to 1843, - - - - -$25,167 90 

For the year 1866, ----------- 6,186 36 

For the year 1867, ------------ 15,658 70 

For the year 1868, -.-.---.... 60,695 22 



Total uncollected, - - - $107,708 18 

The impossibility of cullecting these taxes, owing to the re- 
luctance of persons to purchase property at tax sales, suggests 
the necessity of providing for the enforcement of tax collections 
as far as possible, promptly each year. This great and growing 
evil calls' loudly for legislative action by Congress. But, as a 
means of present relief existing within the powers of the Corpora- 
tion, and as an inducement to property holders to pay their taxes 
without delay, I recommend that in the tax bill for the present 
year there be inserted a clause authorizing and requiring the 
Collector to add to each bill a certain rate per cent, a month on 
all sums remaining unpaid after the first day of September or 
October next. Such a measure has proved salutary where it 
has been tried, and it is believed will induce tax payers here to 
settle up as soon as possible 

MARKET HOUSE. 

Your attention is called to the necessity of erecting another 
market house in lieu of the present Centre Market. The plan 
proposed in the bill introduced by Senator Harlan, at the last 
session of Congress, appears to give very general satisfaction, 
and is undoubtedly the most feasible of any yet suggested. I 
recommend, therefore, that efforts be made to induce Congress 
to pass said bill, which will give the necessary authority for 
erecting a building on the site named, and another on the reser- 
vation between Tenth and Twelfth streets, near the canal, for 
the sale of coarse articles and live stock, that will be a credit to 
the city and a source of very large revenue. Indeed, it is 
believed that the rents alone would be sufficient to pay the 
expense of the building in five years, including the expenses of 
attendance and repairs. 



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PARKING THE AYKNUES AND STREETS. 

The great width of our streets and avenues renders it proper, 
in order to save the useless expense of keeping them clean and 
in proper traveling condition, that a portion of them be parked. 
Various plans have been suggested but it appears to me that ij 
would be the wisest and cheapest method to remove the curb- 
stone on each side, say from ten to twenty feet, according to the 
width of the street, into the carriageway, and make a grass-plat 
with a row of trees in the centre of the space, between the foot 
pavement and the curb. This will not only save the expense of 
paving, cleaning, and repairing so much of the street, but will 
add greatly to the health, beauty, and comfort of the city. The 
experiment once tried, on a single street or square, I am certain 
it would be universally adopted. Before making this alteration^ 
however, and especially before paving any roadway, I would 
advise that a sewer, with water and gas-mains, be laid on each 
side of the street near the outer line of the footwalk, in order to 
save the necessity of opening the street into the centre at any 
time when the sewer or water or gas-mains require to be tapped; 
or the pipes leading therefrom to be repaired. This laying two 
sewers and mains might cost a trifle more at first than one twice 
as large in the middle of the street, but it would be more eco- 
nomical in the end, as much less service-pipe would be required, 
and not half the amount of excavation. Besides, the annoy- 
ance of cutting through the roadway and ruining streets and 
pavements would be entirely avoided. 

PAVIiNG LOUISIANA AND INDIANA AVENUES, ETC. 

The avenues leading to the City Hall (I refer to Louisiana and 
Indiana avenues) should be paved at once. Their condition in 
the winter renders them dangerous for travel, and it is a source 
of great annoyance to our people, as \vell as a discredit to the 
city, that these great thoroughfares should remain longer unim- 
proved. 

North Capitol street should also be opened from the Capitol 
grounds to G street, from which it has been well graded and 
graveled, to the northern boundary of the city. This is the 



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street leading directly from the Capitol to the Governmeni 
Priutiog Office, and, if opened and put in good traveling 
condition, will be used by the teams almost constantly running 
between those points, instead of their going around by New- 
Jersey avenue, as is now done. It being a great convenience 
and a saving of expense, therefore, to the Government, Con- 
gress, I am satisfied, will willingly reimburse the Corporation, 
a portion if not all of the cost of opening this street. 

BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. 

The only difficulty in the way of making North Capitol street 
one of the handsomest leading from the Capitol is its constant 
obstruction by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, 
which uses that street as a convenient depot for unemployed 
freight and passenger cars, makes up trains and keeps them 
standing on ihe street for an}' length of time, and thus prevents 
its use, as well as the use of the streets crossing it, by teams or 
otherwise. This is all in clear violation of the charter of the 
company, which forbids that it shall interfere with the free use 
of the streets on which the road runs or over which it crosses ; 
but it entirely disregards the law, and treats the Corporation 
and the interests of private individuals with contempt. It as- 
sumes to control the grades of our streets ; and when the Cor- 
poration proceeds to execute its laws and ordinances for grading 
such streets and laying the footwalk theieon, it is met with 
resistance and a spirit of defiance that might lead to the suppo- 
sition that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and not 
Congress and the Corporation, is sovereign over Washington. 
If the position taken by that company, that the present bed of 
their road is to govern the grades of the streets, is to be acceded 
to, the Corporation had better abandon the idea of ever im- 
proving that portion of the city which the road traverses, and 
hand over to the company absolute and final jurisdiction, if not 
the fee simple in the land, for every one knows that the streets 
cannot be opened on that grade, nor can the streets or side- 
walks crossing the road ever be used or drained. But I have 
no idea that Congress or the Corporation will yie'd to its inso- 



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lent demands, nor that our courts will sustain it in its absolute 
pretensions. I am well aware that it has become purse-proud 
and overbearing, that it boasts its power to bring the Corpora 
tion to the foot of the throne of its haughty president, that it 
refuses to pay its quota of taxes for the support of the city 
government; but we shall see whether right or might will tri- 
umph in the capital of the nation — whether the monopol}^ that 
undertook to break up the Government at the opening of the 
rebellion, and afterwards grew fat and pompous on its extor- 
tions from the Government when it had failed in its purpose, 
shall remain sovereign here, or yield a little to some other 
power. 

The following bill shows the amount of taxes unpaid by the 
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, as reported by the 
Collector : 

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (Jompuny to Washington Cor- 
poration, Dr. 

Tax on property for 1855, .... - $29(5 32 

Tax for 1856, ...... . 320 40 

Tax for 1857, - - - - - 370 37 

Tax for 1858, ...... - 370 37 

Tax for 1859, - - - - - - 156 26 

Tax for 1860, - - - - - - - 711 38 

Tax for 1861, ...... . 555 56 

Tax for 1862, ------ - 2,133 22 

Tax for 1863, ... ... 2,127 86 

Tax for 1864, -.---- - 3,071 39 

Tax for 1865, - - - - - 3,337 67 

Tax for 1866, ...... - 3,671 42 

Tax for 1867, - - 4,172 09 

Tax for 1868, --.-.- . 5,006 50 

Erecting pump in square 888, - . - . 12 06 

$26,312 87 



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These taxes were levied on the following described property 



Square. 


Lot. 

i 


Value of Lot. 


Improvements. 


118 


all. 


$11,995 


$1,600 


831 


of 1 


198 






" 2 


103 


1 


857 


" 2 


2 


i 

I 




" 3 


49 






" 4 


99 






" 5 


153 






" 6 


175 






" 7 


170 






" 8 


306 






" 9 


4 






" 15 


4 






" 16 


56 




• 


" 17 


85 






" 18 


156 






" 19 


192 




887 


". 1 


36 




888 


" 6 


200 






" 7 


1 




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all. 


78,183 


60,000 




lots, 


$92,167 


$61,600 






Total value of 


$92,167 00 


Improvements 


- 




61,600 00 


Rolling stock, 


- 


. 


80,000 00 


Railroad stock 




- 


100,000 00 



Grand total, - . - - $333,767 00 

For this sum of $26,312 87, which has been accruing for fif- 
teen years, and which the Corporation has been totally unable 
to collect from the company, I have instructed the Corporation 
Attorney to bring suit in our courts. 



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REGULATIONS NECKSSARY TO PREVENT ACCIDENTS. 

I cannot too strongly recommend the Councils to invoke au- 
thority from Congress giving the Corporation full power to 
compel all railroads running into the city to conform the same 
to the legal grade of the streets, and, in order to avoid accidents, 
I also reccommend that the railroad companies be required to 
restrict the speed of trains within the city limits to four miles 
an hour, and to station a flagman or signal officer at the inter- 
section of their road with each graded street of the city, to give 
notice of the approach of trains. Also, that an ordinance be- 
passed imposing heavy penalties on any company for obstruct- 
ing any street, by suffering trains or cars to remain on it when 
not in motion. 

IMPROVEMENT OF THE AVENUES BY THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT. 

Pennsylvania avenue, the great thoroughfare of the city, is in 
a wretched condition, and requires to be newly paved with 
Avood or some other approved material. The other avenues 
(all of which are under the jurisdiction of Congress) should, 
to keep pace with the opening of the streets by the Corporation, 
be graded and graveled, or paved and placed in good traveling 
condition. This is but an act of justice to the city, as the fail- 
ure to grade these avenues, in many cases, renders it impossible 
for the city to open and grade the streets required for travel. 
It is believed, now that the executive and legislative departments 
of the Government are in accord with the authorities of the city, 
that an application to Congress by the Councils to have this 
work accomplished will be successful, and that Congress, if 
properly applied to, and the facts are fully laid before it, will 
deal liberally with the city in regard to public school.-^, the 
improvement of certain streets in the vicinity of public property, 
the construction of sewers, &c. For these things we have a 
right to expect appropriations, as it is the duty of the Grovern. 
ment to pay the expense. In asking it, therefore, we ai-e but 
applying for our rights, and snould not be regarded as heggurt^. 

LIGHTING CERTAIN STREETS AND AVENUES. 

The recent act of Congress requiring the city to light Penn- 
sylvania avenue, as well as othes avenues and streets hertofore 



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lighted at the expense of the United States, with gas, is viewed 
by all our citizens as unjust and oppressive. So long as Con- 
gress asserts jurisdiction and control over these avenues and 
streets, and the Government uses them as much as or more 
than our own people, it ought to have them lighted at its own 
expense, or at least to share with the city the cost of lighting 
This is but an act of simple justice, and will not be denied if 
properly and fairly represented. 

GOVERNMENT AID FOR SCHOOLS. 

Nor will it be denied that a handsome donation is due from 
Congress to aid in sustaining our public schools. Here Congress 
has exclusive jurisdiction, and although there are thousands of 
children to be educated in this city whose parents have been 
brought here by the Government and the exigencies of the re- 
bellion, who are not in reality citizens here, owning nopropert}^, 
and paying no taxes into the city treasury, still not a dollar has 
ever been given by Congress for schools, while land and money 
have been lavished on the States and Territories for educational 
purposes, to aid them in educating their children. This is all 
wrong, and with proper efforts on the part of the Councils, I 
hazard nothing in stating that Congress will "make haste" to 
correct the injustice complained of 

DISBURSING OFFICER. 

I recommend that a disbursing officer be designated to pay the 
laborers on the streets, in the markets, &c. The impropriety 
of paying these persons through the hands of those by whom 
they are employed is too nmnifest to require an explanation. 
The ward commissioners, clerks of markets, and others employ- 
ing men, should be required to furnish to such disbursing officer 
monthly rolls of their employees, verified by oath as to their 
correctness, and payments should be made in accordance there- 
with. Such a course will secure to each laborer his proper 
wages, and take from the persons who employ men on Corpo- 
ration work every inducement to make improper returns, and 
will save the Corporation, in my opinion, a large sum of money. 
Besides, it will prove more satisfactory to our citizens. 



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PAY FOR LABOR AND iMATERlALS FURNISHED CONTRACTORS 

If the contract system is to continue, duty to the laboring 
men of the city, as well as to those who furnish materials, re- 
quires that I should call your attention to the fact that some of 
the contractors have, within the past year, after drawing the 
amounts due them from the Corporation, failed to pay ihe men 
who did their work, and those who supplied them with materials. 
This should be guarded against as much as possible, and I 
recommend the passage of a law authorizing the Register to re- 
tain from the assessments in each case a sum sufficient to satisfy 
all claims of the character mentioned, that shall be furnished 
him with satisfactory evidence of their correctness, until such 
claims are satisfied, or to pay the same to the claimants them- 
selves after a specified period of time has elapsed, and the con- 
tractor still refuses or fails to satisfy them. This would save 
the officers of the Corporation much annoyance and trouble 
from this class of men, who entertain the idea, to some extent, 
that the city is bound to see them paid, and clamor month after 
month for their money, when in reality the contractor is the 
only party to whom they can legally look for their dues. But 
should not the Corporation, so far as it is in its power, protect 
these people from loss through designing contractors? 

SCAVENGERS AND NIGHT SOIL. 

I have on several occasions called the attention of tlie Coun- 
cils to the great difficulties under which the scavengers of the 
city perform their labor. The point has been reached at last 
when their operations must cease o» legislation must afford them 
relief The plan of deodorizing the night soil, which can be 
done at a trifling expense, appears the most feasible ; but the 
whole subject requires investigation and intelligent action, and 
I trust it will not be overlooked or postponed. 

STREET RAILROADS. 

Your attention is called to the condition of the street rail- 
roads, neither of which complies with the requirements of its 
charter in relation to keeping the spaces between the rails and 
tracks, and for two feet outside the rails, paved and in proper 



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condition. This is an evil requiring speedy and prompt action 
Incorporated companies having valuable franchises within the 
limits of the city should he made to comply with the laws giv- 
ing them a corporate existence, or to surrender the privileges 
granted them that they may revert to the Corporation 

RAILROAD Communications with Washington. 
The want of railroads communicating with the city, north, 
south, east and west, has long been felt, and the subject has been 
so thoroughly discussed and is so well understood by all that 
it would be superfluous in me to attempt to add anything to 
awaken an interest in its importance. 1 will therefore content 
myself with the statement that, in my opinion, it will be neces- 
sary for this Corporation, unless it is wiihng that all the chan- 
nels of trade, commerce, manufactures and material wealth shall 
be forever closed against it and diverted to rival cities ; unless 
we are satisfied to lie idle and suffer the tide of progress and 
prosperity, ready to flow in upon us, to recede; unless we wish 
to have renewed the agitation of the subject of the removal of 
the capital of the nation to some more enterprising city of the 
far West ; we must be up and doing, and provide for more cheap 
and more accommodating means of travel and freight to and 
from this city. We cannot, therefore, do better than to turn 
our attention to this subject, and endeavor to obtain from Con- 
gress authority to subscribe to the capital stock of such rail- 
roads as are in contemplation or cource of construction communi- 
cating with this city, or to issue bonds to a proper amount to aid 
in their completion. Xo other investment could be made that 
would yield such profitable returns. 

MANUFACTUttING CAPITAL NEEDED. 

With additional railroads freights will be cheapened, the 
cost of provisions and raw materials lessened, and manufactures 
such as our almost unequaled water-power invites would soon 
follow, and with them an era of improvement and progress 
hitherto unknown. We should not be satisfied to let the future 
growth of our city depend merely on the fact that it is the 
nation's capital, and that the GovernmenJ; supports a large pop- 



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Illation by the payment of large salaries to its officials located 
here. We have other and niore important resources, and it is 
our plain duty to cause them to be developed. This done, the 
threat too often made of a removal of the seat of the govern- 
ment of the United States need have no terrors for any of us. 

CAKE xMiCESSARY IN LEGISLATION AUTHORIZING IMPAOVEMENTS, 

1 cannot too strongly urge upon the Councils the necessity of 
great care in passing bills calling for appropriations of monev 
from the city treasury. Bills of this character authorizing im- 
provements to be made often embarrass the Executive of the 
city, who is compelled by the importunities of parties interested 
to order the work to be done, and thus to involve an expendi- 
ture not perhaps absolutely necessary. Nor should any work 
be authorized involving an expense beyond the original appro- 
pruition, to fix the amount of which a careful estimate should 
be required of the city official under whose supervision the 
work is to be done. The practice of requiring the Mayor to 
contract for grading and graveling streets at a price per yard, 
and appropriating a few hundred dollars therefor, when it will 
require more than as many thousands to pay for it, cannot be 
too strongl}^ condemned. It is impossible for any one to esti- 
mate the expense of the Corporation from year to year so long 
as it continues. 

CONCLUSION. 

During the past year our city has been wonderfully favored, 
for which we have abundant cause to render thanks to that 
Divine Power that watches over and controls all things for the 
benefit of His creatures. We have been blessed with health. 
Peace and prosperity have abounded. No calamities by fire or 
flood have overtaken us. Crimes of great aud less magnitude have 
been few compared with other cities similarly circumstanced, 
and law, order, and propriety have generally been observed by 
all classes of our people. Intemperance, that bane of many 
who would otherwise be ornaments to society and useful to the 
world, is largely on the decrease, and it is now a rare circum- 
stance that an intoxicated person is seen in the street. Reforms 



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are general, and, unless something intervenes to stop their 
progress, we will soon be more free from vices incident to 
large cities than any other city in the IJnion. The many 
calamities that were to befal us in case of emancipation and 
universal suffrage have proved mere phantoms of the brains of 
disordered and improfitahle prophets, whose wish was undoubt- 
edly "father to the thought." 

The comparatively insignificant though unfortunate disturb- 
ance which took place in the Second Ward in this city on the 
occasion of the recent municipal election, would be deemed 
unworthy of mention' as an exception to these remarks, were 
it not, for the extravagant exaggerations in relation thereto 
which have been circulated throughout the country for political 
effect, and to the detriment of the fair fame of this capital. It 
is well known in the community where this disorder occurred 
that it was provoked by acts of the most offensive and exaspe- 
rating character on the part of a single individual who had 
before rendered himself personally obnoxious to numbers of his 
fellow-citizens by dishonest practices. The violence, therefore, 
while it was without justification and is deeply to be regre'ted, 
had far more of personal than of political significance, and it 
was happily suppressed without loas of life or of property. 

The masses of our people are becoming more and more 
enlightened and moral. Old prejudices and animosities, engen- 
dered by the slave system, are disappearing. Free schools will 
soon be open to all, and every child in our midst, who will, may 
have the benefits of a good education. 

Within the past year the people have placed in the executive 
chair of the nation the great soldier who conquered a peace and 
brought traitors to a realizing sense of what it is to make war on 
the Government; an! only one month ago the people of this eit}'" 
again proved their capacity for self government, their ability to 
vote and act intelligently, by electing the friends of freedom, 
the friends of equal rights in all that pertains to manhood and 
the elevation and pr()gi-ess of the human race, to legislate for 
and rule over them an 1 the city, by majorities as unexpected as 
they were decide:! and significant. What may we not reasonably 



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expect lo result from u coiiibiuatiou of favors and circumstances 
such as are here related ? 

For blessings such as these should we not be thankful ? And 
while we render thanks for the past, let us prove ourselves 
worthy of future blessings by making use of those faculties with 
which Providence has endowed us to improve our own and the 
condition of our fcilow man ; to develop the resources placed 
within our reach ; to keep pace with the onward and upward 
march of the age, and to render our beautiful city what it was 
designed by its exalted and beloved founder to be, worthy the 
American people, and worthy of being knowip and honored as 
the capital of the greatest, tne freest, and the most enlightened 
nation on the face of the earth. 

The foregi'ing are my individual opinions and views on the 
various matters to which they relate. I'hey are communicated 
to you for your consideration and action. If they meet with 
your favor and regard 1 shall be gratified ; if not, and the 
Councils agree ^^o reject them and substitute those of their own, 
it will be my aim aud purpose to co-operate with them and carry 
out the will of the majority. I am ready to submit to any 
sacrifice of opinion in order to secure harmony between the 
dift'erent departments, and to maintain the best interests of the 
city. 

Invoking the aid of Almighty God in your deliberations and 
action, and His continued blessing on our beloved city, I trust 
that our counsels may be so guided as to effect the greatest good 
to the o-rcatest number, both to ourselves and our posterity. 
Very respectful!}-, your obedient servant, 

S. J. Bo WEN, Mayor. 



REPORT OF THE WATER REGISTRAR. 



Office of Water Registrar, City Hall, 

Washington, D. C, July 2, 1869. 
/fon. Saxles y. Bowcn^ Mayor: 

Sir : — I have the honor to submit the following report 
for transmission to the Boards of the City Council : 

The last annual report made by m}^ predecessor in 
office, so far as I have been able to ascertain, was dated 
March i, 1864, and hence I am not afforded such data, 
and such a continuous exhibition of the condition of our 
water distribution and of the transactions of this office 
up to the date of my accession thereto, as would render 
an annual report at this time a simple statement of the 
business of the office for the past fiscal year. Without, 
therefore, any report of last year as a basis, I shall aim 
to make a general statement of the transactions of the 
office for the year ending on the 30th ultimo, together 
with such facts and suggestions as may possibly be of 
interest to yourself, the Councils, and the public, and 
afford some information which may be useful in framing- 
future legislation for the government and improvement 
of the Water Department. An ordinance of the Corpo- 
ration contemplates an annual report from the Water 
Registrar in January ; but to accord with our general 
system, and in consideration of the fact that I had then 
been in office but a fraction of a year, I have deemed it 
more essential that it should embrace the fiscal year, and 
have acted accordingly. 

I entered upon my duties as Water Registrar on the 
nth of July last, without the privilege of such introduc- 
tion to its varied duties as is customarv from an outcjoina' 
to an incoming public officer — but soon familiarized my- 
self with the work to be done. There were no books in 
the office showing the condition of the Water Fund or 
of the accounts of the retiring officer, and none have 
since been received. This is a matter, however, which 
belongs to the Councils rather than myself; but if records 



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had been kept as a part of the system of the office show- 
ing the amount of receipts from each source of its reve- 
nue, they would be very valuable for preservation and 
reference, and would have rendered unnecessary much 
of the labor which I have had in preparing some of the 
statistics of this report. 

When I entered upon the duties of this office it was 
an active part of the year in respect of making new water 
connections, making up the assessment of water tax 
for a portion of the mains laid in 1867, collecting the 
water tax, of which one instalment falls due annually 
in July, and preparing to lay new mains, while a large 
number of water rents for 1868 remained to be collected, 
repairs to be made, &c. 

WATER RENTS. 

The whole number of water rents at the present date, 
with a general classification, and the annual value of the 
rents of each class, is shown by the following table, as 
made up from the books of the office ; but this is not a 
correct criterion of the actual receipts from this source, 
lor the reason that in some cases the water has been 
taken for only a part of the 3'ear ; in others it has been, 
for various reasons, temporarily discontinued, while in a 
few instances it is still due and unpaid. 



Classilication of Rents. 


Number. 


Value. 


Private Dwellings, 


4,053 


119,676 70 


Hotels, Restaurauts, and Bars, 


174 


3,628 00 


Stores, Banks, &c.. 


122 


039 00 


Gas Holders, 


3 


200 00 


Engines (Locomotive,) 


9 


800 00 


Engines (Stationary,) 


22 


411 00 


Stables, 


72 


665 75 


Breweries'^ 


12 


333 15 


Barber Shops and Public Baths, 


16 


183 00 


Bakeries and Conl'ectionaries, 


16 


57 00 


Miscellaneous, 


17 


198 50 


Churches, Public Schools, and Chari- 






table Institutions, tor which there is 






no charge. 


92 




Total, 


4,607 


135,787 10 



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On :i:he 31st of December, 1863, the last date to which 
I find any similar report, the whole number of water- 
takers was 2,098, and the value of the water rents $14,- 
-822 75, showing an increase in the past five and a half 
years of 2,509 in the number of places supplied wdth Po- 
tomac water, and of $10,964 35 in the annual value of 
the rents. In this statement the public buildings and 
other establishments belonging to, or occupied by, the 
General Government are not taken into the account. 

The number of places supplied with Potomac water for 
die first time during the year ending on the 30th ult., is 
809, and that number of taps has consequently been made 
by the Inspector and Tapper of Water Mains. 

The amount actually collected for water rents during 
the past fiscal year is $25,110 51. Of this sum $2,442 66 
is for rents of 1868, and of which $2,277 4^ was collec- 
ted by me ; $22,667 §5 is for rents of 1869, making the 
total amount of water rents collected by me during the 
fiscal year $24,945 26. 

In this connection I would say that, by the munificent 
provision made by the General Government for supplying 
this city with-water, our citizens are aflforded one great 
convenience and necessity at a much lower rate than is 
paid therefor in other places ; and by a comparison of 
our water rates with those of the other principal cities of 
the country I find that they are, on an average, not more 
than one-fifth as high. In no city have the officers of the 
water department been less inquisitorial in examining as 
lo the use of water or allowed a more liberal consumption 
Avithout extra charge. This leniency is often abused by 
-an extravagant use and waste of water, which the grow- 
ing shortness of our suppl}^ requires should be remedied. 
Our basis of assessing water rents is, for domestic use, 
the number of stories and front width of the house sup- 
plied, which, after a careful examination of the systems 
adopted in other cities, I am satisfied is best adapted to 
our circumstances. Were our rates higher, it would be 
well to take into account the number of rooms in each 
iiouse, and also to make a separate charge for street 
washer, water closet, bath tub, &c : but without increas- 



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ing our general rates these items are too small to com- 
pensate for the extra labor and expense of their assess- 
ment and collection. For hotels and other establish- 
ments requiring a large supply of water, the use of water 
meters would, in my opinion, be a very great improve- 
ment, and probably save a very large quantity of water 
which is so much needed for ordinar}^ domestic purposes 
in the more elevated parts of the city. The use of meters 
is increasing in other cities, and I would recommend their 
adoption for hotels, breweries, steam engines, gas works^ 
stables, and similar establishments, which now pa}- a 
fixed water rent, generally inadequate and often but 
loosely proportioned to the amount of water used. Both 
by preventing waste and by an increase of revenue would 
the city be repaid for the cost of the meters, var3dngfrom 
$20 to $40 each, should authority be given for their pur- 
chase and adoption. The imperfection of such meters 
has retarded their coming into general use, but late im- 
provements have been achieved which render them both 
accurate and practicable. 

WATER TAXES. 

A tax of seven-eighths of one cent per square foot is 
assessed upon all property binding upon a street where a 
water main is laid, to reimburse the expense of laying 
the same, which is pa3^able in five annual instalments, or 
in one payment, with a discount of six -per cent., at the 
option of the owner of the property. The amount of this 
tax collected during the past fiscal year is $28,361 10. 
The whole amount collected since the same was first as- 
sessed in 1865, as I have made the compilation from the 
thousands of margins of receipts given therefor, is $143,- 
624 78. The amount of such tax assessed and remaining 
unpaid, as obtained by a somewhat laborious process ^ 
with the proportion which was over-due prior to the ist 
instant, and that which falls due the present month, and 
on the ist of July in the subsequent years, is shown by 
the following table, as also the different years in which 
the same was assessed. The taxes of 1865 and 1866 are 
included under one head, as they both draw interest from 
the same date. 



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Table showing amount of outstanding Water Tax^ ifc. 



Date of Assessment. 


Over- due June Not due June 
30, 1869. 30, 1869. 


Taxes of 1865 aud 1866, 
Accrued Interest, 
Tax of 1867, 
Accrued Interest, 
Tax of 1868, 
Accrued Interest, 
Tax of 1869. 


119,204 72 $27,578 82 

3,456 84 4,964 18 

761 28 3,763 81 

91 34 331 53 

1,610 88 8,835 91 

96 05 570 15 

12,974 98 


Total, 


f 25, 221 71 


$58,018 38 



The taxes for 1865-6 were assessed, under an act of 
Congress, upon all mains laid prior to that date, while 
:subsequently the tax has been assessed only upon the 
mains laid each year ; hence the large amount for those 
years compared with the others. It is part of my experi- 
ence to be frequently asked by persons coming to pay 
this water tax, why, since the General Government built 
the Aqueduct, and the owners of property pay this tax 
for laying the mains, any rent for the use of the water 
should be necessary. 

These inquiries are answered by considering, 

First. That this tax is payable in five annual instal- 
ments, so that unless it is voluntarily paid sooner, but 
one-fftJi of the cost of the mains is available to the water 
fund to offset the disbursements of each year, even sup- 
posing the above-named rate of assessment to cover the 
expense, which is frequently not the case, owing to the 
great width of our streets and the large amount of proper- 
ty belonging to the General Government and not liable to 
the tax. 

Second. That almost constant, and sometimes heav}^ 
expenditures are necessary to repair leakages in the 
mains and prevent the damage to streets, sewers, and 
'Other public and private property, which would be a dis- 
astrous consequence of neglect in this particular. 



Third. That soon after the organization ot tlie Water 
Department, ten years ago, a laan of $155,000 \va& 
deemed necessary in order to extend the circulation of 
water from the few main arteries provided by the General 
Government, bv la3-ing new water mains, prior to the 
authorization of this tax, and water stock was issued for 
that amount, upon which the interest has been regularly 
paid, but to meet the principal of wdiich, to fall due as 
hereinafter stated, no surplus or sinking fund, has ac- 
cumulated from the revenues of this office ; and 

Fourth. That the fire hydrants, of the most approved 
and efficient pattern novv' in use, have been erected along 
the lines of the water mains to the number of about five 
hundred, which, as safeguards against the destruction of 
property, certainly enhance its value in a ratio far ex- 
ceeding their cost. 

Thus it becomes necssary to supply this defficiency, 
for the time being, in the tax intended to cover the ex- 
pense of laying the mains, (four-ritths of it being in de- 
terred payments), as well as to defray tlie expense of re- 
pairs and tire hydrants, above-named, and what source 
at once so appropriate, just and equitable as a moder- 
ate charge for the use of water? 

REPAIRS. 

During the year repairs of some eighty leakages in 
mains, stops and fire hydrants have been made, new 
stop-boxes have been put in at the street crossings where- 
ever rendered necessary by tlie decay of the old ones, 
some thirty stops have been paved around, to the great 
improvement of the streets and increased safety of travel. 
At the Centre market, on my accession to office, the fire 
hydrants, being of the old pattern, were in a leaky con- 
dition, and while they were of little or no service in the 
important respect of cleansing the market and protecting 
it from fire, the}^ were very active agents in the wa.ste of 
water. 

These hydrants were replaced by others ^ and those in. 
the Northern Liberty market have been repaired, and 
one in the Western market. All this work under the 
head of "Repairs" has been done by tlie Lispector and, 



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Tapper of Water Mains, under my direction, who has 
employed men for that purpose, from time to time, in- 
stead of ordering it done by plumbers or contractors, as 
has heretofore generally been the case. 

I am satisfied that the result has been, owing in no 
small degree to the thorough competency of the Inspector 
and Tapjier of Mains and his devotion to his duties, a 
great saving of expense, as well as the giving work to 
poor men who greatly need it. As an example, the price 
paid heretofore tor paving around stops, by contract, has 
been $io each, while the paving of the thirty above- 
named cost but $3 each, the necessary stones being pro- 
cured from the Ward Commissioners without expense to 
the city. All the stops at the intersection of streets 
should be paved, as otherwise the tops or plates are 
knocked off by vehicles and openings left which are 
dangerous and might involve the Corporation in suits for 
damages. The expense is properly chargeable to the 
appropriation for " Incidental Expenses of La^nng Water 
Mains," which should be made large enough for the 
purpose, or a special appropriation made theretbr. 

By the grading of K street, some 150 feet of water 
pipe laid by the War Department to the Deaf and Dumb 
Asylum was left above ground. This was relaid and 
the expense charged to the appropriation for " Repairs," 
as was that of resetting stop-boxes and fire-plugs, which 
was rendered necessary by grading or the change of 
grades. 

LAYING OF WATER MAINS. 

During the past season, after my accession to office, 
some 15,000 feet of 6-inch water mains were procured 
and laid in such localities as seemed, after a careful ex- 
amination of the whole ground and a collation of thenu- 
merous acts authorizing the laying of water mains, most 
urgently to need them, regard being had to a fair dis- 
tribution of the same to the different parts of the city, the 
tinmber of houses that would be thereby accommodated 
and protection which would be afforded against fire in 
localities otherwise very much exposed. This was all 
the pipe which the limited resources of the water fund 



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and the appropriation therefor would allow, although if 
was very tar from meeting the demand. It is proposed 
to lay about 20,000 feet of 6-inch mains during the pres- 
ent season, and the work is now in progress. 

Fire-plugs were erected along all the lines of the new 
mains, so that protection to property is made to keep 
pace with the convenience of a supply of water. During 
last fall twenty-three fire-plugs were erected, in addition 
to those placed in the Centre market, the expense of 
which was paid out of the water fund, though charge- 
able, under an act of the Corporation, to the several 
Ward funds. 

A water main was laid last fall by the Freedmen's 
Bureau from the intersection of East Capitol and east 
Third streets to its tenement houses, seventy-six in num- 
ber, erected in square number 1,054, extending from 
east Third street along East Capitol street to east 
Eleventh street, thence along east Eleventh to north B 
street, along north B to Tennessee avenue, thence along 
Tennessee avenue to north C street, thence along north 
C to east Fifteenth street, with branches along east and 
west sides of the square. This is a 6-inch main as far 
as east Fourteenth street, and the balance is 4-inch, 
making 6,793 feet of the former, and 1,275 of the latter 
size. It was laid in anticipation of its future purchase 
by the Corporation, and was therefore done under the 
general supervision of this office, and in accordance with 
its regulations for laying- mains. 

The subject was presented to the late Councils in a 
communication of his honor, the Mayor, and the proper 
Committee has been furnished w^ith the necessary data 
for its adjustment.. 

There is a larg-e number of 4-inch water mains in 
different parts of the citv, which were laid during the war 
by the Qiiartermaster's Department, but which are no- 
longer required for its use. Brevet Brigadier General J. 
C. McFerran. Deputy Quartermaster General, has trans- 
mitted me a list of these mains and proposed their purchase 
by the city at an appraised valuation to be made by a 
person acting on behalf of his Department and one acting- 
on behalf of the citv. Some of these niains would be of 



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good service, and as they can doubtless be purchased for 
a small sum compared with their cost, and most of them be 
put to some use, the proposition is worthy of consideration 
by the appropriate committees of the Councils. The main 
on Eighth street west, extending from N street to Boun- 
dary, is one of those included in the list above-named, 
and his honor, the Mayor, united with me in recommend- 
ing to the late Councils its purchase at the appraised 
value of twenty-five cents per foot, but an act which 
passed one of the Boards for that purpose failed to pass 
the other, which I much regret, especially as, b^^the per- 
mission of the Qiiartermaster General, we had tapped 
the main in several instances, and our citizens are enjoy- 
ing thebenefits of it. Its purchase w^ould be a greatsaving 
of expense and afford an adequate supply of water to res- 
idents along its line for man}^ years to come, if not ahvays. 
The reason why the act for its purchase did not pass would 
seem to be the hope that Congress would donate it to 
the city, but there are other and greater matters in which 
we may ask Congressional aid, and if we expect help in 
those we should show a willingness to help ourselves, at 
least in smaller ones. 

RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES. 

The receipts of this office for the year ending June 30, 
1869, which have been deposited in the designated bank, 
were as follows : 

Receipts from water taxes, ----- ^28,361 02 
" " " rents, - - - . - 24,945 26 

" " taps and permits, - - - - 2,395 00 



$55,701 28 
Water taxes collected by A. G. Hall, Col- 
lector, and deposited to credit of 
water fund, ---- - -- - 290 23 

Total receipts of water fund, - - $55^991 Si 

The expenses have been, including every debt con- 
tracted, as follows : 

For Water Mains and Fire Plugs, - - - $17,47866 
Laying Mains, -------- 2,468 24 



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Interest on Water Stock, (one year's in- 
terest on $155,000.) - _ - - 9,300 00 
Salaries, - --------- 5,821 66 

Repair of Water Mains, ----- i'.427 00 

Incidental expenses of laying Water 

Mains, --------.- 1706 90 

Contingent expenses, including station- 
ery, printing, keeping horse, repair 
of office, &c., ------- 868 53 

Water Wagon, (special appropriation) - 247 00 

Total, - - - $38,317 99 
Balance, receipts over expenses, - - 17,673 52 



n99i 51 
If to the above balance be added the balance to the 

credit of the Water Fund June 30, 1868, namely, 
$4,066 86, it will increase the balance to the credit of this 
fund on June 30, 1869, to $21,740 38. Any variance 
between this and the exhibit of the City Register will be 
owing to the fact that his statement and that of the bank 
are necessarily made up at an earlier date, while this 
statement purports to give an exhibit of the condition of 
the Water Fund without reference to the balancing of 
books, and contains some items still outstanding. The 
appropriations made by the late Councils, which were 
of specific sums, out of the Water Fund, were as fol- 
lows : 
For Salaries, ---------- $6,255 0° 

Repair of Water Mains. &c., - - - 2,000 00 
Incidental expenses of laving Water 

Mains, --------- 2,000 00 

Contingent expenses, - - - - - 2,000 00 

Purchaseof Water Wagon, - - - - 250 00 

I therefore have the satisfaction of stating that the 
several items of expense, as shown above, fall far below 
the amounts appropriated. For the year ending June 
30, 1868, with the same amounts appropriated, the ex- 
penses were as follows : 
For Salaries, ---------- $6,508 00 

Repair of Water Mains, - - - - 2,719 20 



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Incidental expenvses of laying Water 

Mains, -----"'---- 4,675 13 

Contingent expenses, ----- 311 96 

The total expenditureg of the Water Fund for that 
year having been $56,905 62, against $38,317 99, for 
the year just closed. To the above balance of receipts 
over expenses for the past year may properly be added 
the amount chargeable to the Ward Funds, for the erec- 
tion of Fire Plugs, and which is really due from them 
to the Water Funds, namely, $1,870. This would in- 
crease the balance of the past year to $19,543 52, and 
the present balance to $23,610 38. 

This statement w^ould present the Water Fund in a 
false light, were it not borne in mind that loans have been 
made, from time to time, tor the use of the Water Depart- 
ment, first, by virtue of an act of Congress authorizing 
the issue of 6 per cent. Water Stock to an amount not 
exceeding $150,000, and, second, by virtue of an act of 
the Councils approved September 7, 1865, authorizing the 
Mayor " to anticipate the revenue of the Water Fund to 
the amount of $30,000, for the purpose of purchasing- 
pipe, to be laid during the ensuing year." 

The amount of Water Stock issued and loans made 
during the several 3^ears, as made up from the different 
reports of the City Register, is as follows : 

For the year ending June 30, i860, - - . $72,000 

" " " " " " 1861, - - - - 32,000 

" " " " " " 1863, - - - 15,000 

" " " " " " 1864, - - - - 34,500 

Loan for the year ending June 30, 1866, as 

per act of Councils, ------- 20,000 



Total, - - - - $173,500 

There is a discrepancy between the City Register's re- 
port for the year ending June 30, 1864, and the Water 
Stock Books, the latter showing the issue of $36,000 of 
stock during that year, instead of $34,500, as given 
above, and the interest is paid each year out of the Water 
Fund on $155,000 of Water Stock, viz. $9,300, proving 
the error to have been in the Register's report, which has 



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been continued through subsequent exhibits of the Water 
Fund. There are no books in this oifice, showing the 
receipts and disbursements of the Water Fund heretofore, 
but as collated from tlie reports of the City Register lor 
the several years, they have been as follows : 

The actual receipts of the Water Fund to June 30, 
1869, exclusive of loans, $286,823 5^ ; actual expendi- 
tures to same date, $438,583 18. Balance of e?vpendi- 
tures over actual receipts, $151,759 62. The loans 
amount to $173,500, which makes the total receipts from 
all sources $459,323 56, and giving the balance, as here- 
inbefore stated, of $20,740 38. Were the outstanding 
Wafer Taxes all paid there would remain a balance of 
expenditures over receipts, exclusive of loans, of $67,- 
519 53, and a balance of receipts, including loans, over 
expenditures, of $103,980 09. The aWter Stock runs 
ten years from date of issue, and falls due as follows : 
During the year ending June 30, 1870, - $72, 000 00 
" "• " " " " 1871, - 32,000 00 

" 1873, - 15,000 00 
" •' " " 1874, - 36,000 00 

This debt cannot be regarded in the light of a blessing, 
whatever may be the fact in regard to the national one, 
and although, with proper authority, it can doubtless be 
renewed, yet its payment at as early a day as practica- 
ble should be aimed at, thus to relieve the at er Fund 
of the annual interest, which is no small draught upon 
its resources. 

The ater Rents are constantl}^ and steadih^ increas- 
ing, and with a careful husbanding of resources, an an- 
nual balance can, in my opinion, be saved and appro- 
priated to the extinguishment of this debt, on the basis 
of no extraordinar}^ expenditures being called for within 
the next few 3^ears. 

SUPPLY AND CONSUMPTION OF WATER. 

The increasing consvimption, and inadequate supply 
of water, however, present a serious subject for the 
consideration of the Councils. The source of our sup- 
ply at the Great Falls of the Potomac is equal to all 
future possibilities, but the two mains from the reservoir 



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to the citv are taxed to suppl}' the consumption, which 
is enormous in proportion to our population ; and the 
small size, and. in some instances, the almost isolation, 
of the mains extending long distances from the larger 
feeders, occasions great complaint from those residing in 
the more elevated and more remote portions of the city, by 
reason of the water being nearly exhausted before reach- 
ing such localities. This is especially the case during the 
principal part of the day in midsummer, when the drain 
is at its maximum, it being only at night and early morn- 
ing that these remoter and more elevated points are 
afforded their necessary supply. The average daily 
consumption of water in this city and Georgetown for 
the past vear was over 12,000,000 gallons, a quantity 
which would appear far in excess of the requirements of 
our population, although the consumption at the Navy 
Yard and for other purposes of the Government is very 
great. Estimating the population of the two cities at 
150,000, this gives So gallons as the average daily con- 
sumption of every man, woman and child, while much 
less than one-half of that quantity is the allowance usual- 
ly made in calculations relating to aqueducts and water 
distribution. 

When it is further considered that wells are quite 
extensively used, and that the whole number of places 
using aqueduct water in this city, aside from Government 
buildings, is but 4,607, the consumption, compared with 
that ot other large cities, would seem incomprehensible, 
except upon the theory that people waste without stint 
that which is furnished so cheaply and without measure- 
ment. 

Take, for illustration, the following- named cities : 

Cincinnati, population about 250,000 ; average daily 
consumption of water for the past 3'ear, 7,623,325 gal- 
lons ; Water Rents collected $334,804 82. 

Chicago, population about 252,000; average dail}' 
consumption of water for the year ending March 31, 
1868, 11,560,730 gallons; Water Rents collected $337,- 

371 77- , 

Boston, population 230,000; average daily consump- 
tion of water for the year ending April 30, 1868, was 



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13,5655006 gallons, with 28,104 establishments supplied^ 
Eind the Water Rents collected amounted to $550,000 

Detroit, population 75,000 ; average daily comsump- 
tion of water for last year, 4,565,877 gallons, with 11,544 
families supplied and 155 stationary engines ; Water 
Rents collected $106,399 14. 

To remedy our defective supply several plansare 
available, and 

First. I wovikl mention the feasibility of so limiting 
the waste and excessive use by the adoption of meters as 
hereinbefore suggested, by placing the public hydrants, 
which are so often out of order and the cause of immense 
waste, under the charge of this office, and by a rigid 
enforcement of the laws and regulations upon the subject 
of the use and w^aste of water, that our present supply 
shall be adequate to all present legitimate demands. 

Second. Should an increased supply still be required, 
a new main from the reservoir, extending through the 
northern part of the city, would afford a supply limited 
only b}^ the size of the main laid. The expense of such 
a main would be large, but if the city should take deter- 
mined action in the matter the co-operation of Congress 
might reasonably be hoped for. . 

Third. A less expensive remedy would be to build a 
reservoir on Meridian Hill, or in that vicinity, and fill 
the same during the night from a main connected with 
the 30 inch main on K street by an engine and pump 
located near the Boundary. This would give back a 
supply through the day, and thus afford the needy relief; 
and, possibly it might be desirable, hereafter, to supply 
suburban residences in that region therefrom. 

QUALITY OF THE AQUEDUCT WATER. 

During portions of the year the water is not as clear 
as is desirable. The chief cause of this is the incomplete 
condition of the Washington Aqueduct. The distribu- 
ting reservoir, covering an area of forty-tour acres, situa- 
ted near "Drovers' Rest," became in such a damaged 
condition in November last, by reason of the washing 
away of its embankments, that the water was drawn off, 
and it has not since been used, and probably will not be 



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until an appropriation shall be made by Congress to line 
its banks with masonr\'. This reservoir was intended to 
afford an opportunity for the water to settle before enter- 
ing the mains ; and the consequence of its disuse has 
been that the water, coming more directly from the Poto- 
mac, without filtration or the chance to settle, has been 
muddy when the Potomac has been swollen by rains ; 
and the receiving reservoir, being the natural receptacle 
of a large amount of surface drainage, is not likely to be 
clearer than the river itself, and at the present time, 
while certain repairs are being made the water passes 
through no reservoir, so that while this Aqueduct is a 
blessing hardly to be over-estimated, yet its completion 
is "a consummation devoutly to be wished." 

I have the honor to be, very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 

S. R. BOND, 
Water Registrar . 



KEPOUT OF THE EIJIE COMMISSIONERS. 



Office of Fire Commissioners of the City of 
Washington. 

Washington, Jul}- ist, 1869. 
To the Honorable Board of Aldermen and Board 0/ 
Common Council of Washington City : 

Gentlemen : — It affords us much pleasure to submit 
to your honorable bodies the Fifth Annual Report of 
the Washington City Fire Department, containing a 
carefully prepared statement of the financial operations 
of this Board, together with the reports of the Chief En- 
gineer, and Superintendent of the Fire Alarm Tele- 
graph, inventory of property, list of fires and alarms, list 
of members of the department, and a list of stations of 
the fire alarm telegraph. 

When we entered upon the discharge of our duties. 



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we found three of the companies disorganized, the 
houses in need of repairs, and refurnishing ; several 
horses unserviceable, and the treasury empty, besides a 
large floating debt, and a disposition on the part of many 
of our citizens not to credit us. 

This state of affairs necessitated a large expenditure, 
more than will probably be required during the coming 
year, as all of the engines are now in thorough repair, 
and our stock in good condition ; and we believe the de- 
partment to be more effective than at any previous stage 
of its existence. 

Our losses by tire have been very small, compared 
with those of previous years. 

Your honorable bodies, having authorized the purchase 
and equipment of two new steam tire engines, we have 
taken the preliminary steps towards securing them, and 
trust that we shall soon be able to have them in opera- 
tion. 

We recommend the sale of the Franklin engine house, 
No. 2, and the removal of the engine to some point north 
of Pennsylvania avenue, as the house will soon require 
extensive repairs, and its removal would, in our opinion, 
add greatly to the effectiveness of the department. Ar- 
ranp;ements should be made for the removal of the Co- 
lumbia engine house, No. 3, as the Government will 
soon require the ground on which it now stands. Also 
that a sufficient amount be appropriated to build an en- 
gine house in the southern section of the city. 

The Board would ask that two hundred copies of their 
report be printed for the use of the department. 

Respectfully submitted. 

Geo. W. Goodall, 
Wm. H. Gorbutt, 
Jno. H. Johnson, 
Charles King, 
Board of -Fire Commissioners. 

E. L. CORBIN, 

Acting Secretary. 



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Expenses of the Washington City Fire Department for the year ending 
June 30, 1869. 

Repairs to engines, &c $3,885 19 

Fuel ; 534 55 

Feed 2,883 69 

Gas 1,378 80 

Horse Shoeing 183 35 

Miscellaneous 6,830 78 

Total expenses 14,684 36 



Appropriations and Disbursements. 

Nov. 9, 1868. Amount appropriated for 
compensation to the Chief 
Engineer and employees of 
the Fire Department, for 
the fiscal year ending June 

80th, 1869 $16,700 00 

Expended for that purpose.... 16,700 00 

Nov. 9, 1868. Amount appropriated for 
compensation of Superin- 
tendent and employees of 

Fire Alarm Telegraph 3,500 00 

Amount expended for that 
purpose 3,500 00 

Nov. 9, 1868. Amount appropriated for con- 
tingent expenses of Fire 

Alarm Telegraph 1,400 00 

Amount expended 1,397 37 

Balance unexpended $3 73 

Nov. 9, 1868. Amount appropriated for the 
contingent expenses of Fire 
Depar'.ment for the fiscal 
year ending June 30, 1869... 7,000 00 

Marcli 19, 1869. Additional amount appropri- 
ated for the same purpose... 1,700 00 

Total amount appropriated.... 8,700 00 

Bills paid during the fiscal 

year 6,391 53 

Amount of defalcation of W. 
H. Stewart, late secretary... 393 84 

6,684 37 

D 



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Balance now on hand 

Bills remaining unpaid 

Leaving a deficiency of 

March 19, 1869. Amount appropriated for defi- 
ciency in the appropriation 
for contingent expenses of 
the year ending June 30th, 
1868 1,800 00 

March 8, 1869. Amount appropriated for 
entertainment of visiting 

firemen 950 00 

Expended for that purpose.... 950 00 

Bills remaining unpaid 

Leaving a deficiency of 

June 1, 18G8. Amount appropriated to pur- 
chase Columbia, No. 3, en- 
gine house, unexpended.... 500 00 

May 24, 1869. Amount appropriated for pur- 
chase of new engine, &c., 
not yet expended 5,000 00 

June 10, 1869. Amount appropriated for pur- 
chase of new engine, &c., 
not yet expended 5,000 00 



2,015 63 
8,292 73 
6,277 10 



766 50 
766 50 



10,500 00 



Indebtedness prior to June 30, 1868, paid this year. 

Of indebtedness existing prior 
to June 30, 1868, there has 
been paid during the cur- 
rent year in ionds $4,270 53 

There has been paid during 
the present year in cash 2,319 79 

Total amount paid in cash 
and bonds f6,590 32 



General Summary, 
Total amount expended for 
salaries for the yearjending 
June 30, 1869 $20,200 00 



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Total amount of contingent 

expenses for the year end- 
ing June 30, 1869, including 

defalcation of W. H. Stew- 
art, late Secretary 14,977 10 

Total amount of expenses of 

the Fire Department for the 

year ending June 30, 1869, 

not including the bills, &c., 

made piior to June 30, 

1868, and settled during the 

present year 35,177 10 

Total amount of bills, salaries, 

•fee, that accrued prior to 

June 30, 1868, but were 

paid during the year ending 

June 30, 1869 6,590 33 

Total expense of entertaining 

the visiting firemen on the 

4th of March, 1869 1,716 50 

Total expenditure of the Fire 

Department for the year 

ending June 30, | 1869, in- 
cluding the bills contracted 

prior to June 30, 1868, and 

paid during the present 

year 43,483 92 



Washington, D. C, July i, 1869. 

To the Honorable Mayor, Boards of Aldermen and 
Common Council of the City of Washington : 

Gentlemen : — I have the honor to submit to you my 
annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1869. 

As you are doubtless well aware, I assumed control 
of the aft airs of the Fire Department one year ago, un- 
der the most disadvantageous circumstances possible. 
The Department came into my hands completely disor- 
ganized, as to its members, and in utter disorder as to 
its property. 

Immediately upon the announcement of my appoint- 
ment as Chief Engineer, the members of Engine Com- 



panics Nos. i and 2, and Hook and Ladder Company, 
No. I, being bitterly opposed to me on political grounds, 
resigned and left the engine houses in a body, thus leav- 
ing me to begin my duties without a single man (so far 
as the companies spoken of were concerned) to work 
the apparatus or care for the stock left in the houses. 
One solitary compan}^ (Columbia, No. 3) remained at 
their post, where they still remain ; and I am happy to 
state that I have ever found them prompt, reliable and 
faithful in the performance of every duty, and I ieel that 
too much praise cannot be bestowed upon them for their 
good conduct in this particular. Had a tire of any 
magnitude occurred just at that time the result might 
have proved disastrous to some of the property holders 
ot our city. In addition to this I found the engine 
houses dismantled to a great degree (nearly everything 
portable having been carried oft' by the outgoing compa- 
nies) and purposely put in the worst condition possible. 
The bath tubs and water closets were in a plight which 
precluded all possibility of their being used in their then 
condition ; and upon examination I discovered that the 
escape pipes had been stopped up by ramming down 
them soda w'ater bottles, cotton waste, old shoes, etc., 
etc., and it was with no little labor and expense that 
they were put in repair and rendered fit for use. No. i 
engine was found to have been tilled with stones and 
gravel (either by accident or design) to such a degree as 
to make it necessary to take it apart and cleanse it before 
it was deemed safe to put it into service. With this ex- 
ception, the apparatus was found to be in tolerably good 
condition, with the exception of one hose carriage which 
it w^as found necessary to repair before putting into ser- 
vice. 

Two of the horses at No. i engine house I found to 
be not onl}' out of service but unserviceable, and a third 
suffering severely from disease of the kidneys. 

I was considerably astonished on taking charge of the 
property of the Department to ftnd a great discrepencj^ 
betw^een the statements contained in the inventories ac- 
companying the last annual report of the outgoing Chief 
Engineer and the actual facts in the case. The last re- 

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port of the late Chief Engineer was made on the ist of 
July, and I took charge of the affairs of the Department 
on the 9th of the same month. To my surprise, I dis- 
covered that very many of the articles entered in the 
inventories attached to his report as on hand (among 
other articles, a large quantity of feed, a lot of coal, 
combs, brushes, &c., &c.,) were not to be found; and 
of the other articles which were inventoried as on hand, 
without any intimation of their being unserviceable, a 
very large majority — I should think at least two-thirds — 
were badly out of repair and the greater portion of them 
totally unfit for use. The furniture in all the houses, 
except No. i, was in bad condition, being much worn 
and dilapidated. Many of the articles were beyond re- 
pair and had to be replaced with new. The mattresses, 
sheets, pillow cases and blankets were unfit for use, and 
it was found necessar}- to re-furnish all the houses, save 
one, with these articles. 

This is the condition in which the Department was 
found when it came into my hands, and I immediately took 
measures to thoroughly reorganize it and put it in good 
working order. My first step was, of course, to re-fill the 
companies left vacant by the resignations before spoken 
of; and it is hardly necessary to narrate to you here 
with whet bitter opposition and open animosity I was met 
at every step of m}^ endeavors. Suffice it to say that 
in a very short space of time, I had reorganized those 
companies, placing in them as members persons whom 
I believe to be quite as reliable, prompt and efficient, as 
any who went before them ; and it is with sincere plea- 
sure that I now report to you that the whole Department 
is in excellent working order. The houses are well fur- 
nished and comfortable ; the stock is in fine condition and 
the apparatus in thorough repair ; and the men under 
my control are prompt, energetic, efficient and willing, 
and I think I may safely say that the Department has 
never been more effective than now. 

Appended, will be found an inventory of the propertv 
in the several engine houses, together with a detailed 
statement of the fires, alarms, losses, insurance, &c., as 
far as it was possible for me to ascertain them. 



54 

Before closing this report, I desire to use it as a 
medium through which to return my sincere thanks to 
the Mayor, Board of Fire Commissioners, and their effi- 
cient Secretary, for their unvarying kindness and cour- 
tesy towards me, and the valuable support they have so 
willingly extended to me in my labors during the past 
year; also to the officers of the Fire Alarm Telegraph, 
and to the Metropolitan Police force who have kindly ren- 
dered me every assistance in their power. 

I desire also to thank and compliment the men who 
have served under me since the beginning of my term 
of office. In the arduous labor they have taken upon 
themselves — leading lives at all times fraught with dan- 
ger — they have at all times performed their several du- 
ties to my entire satisfaction. 

Respectfully submitted, 

W. D. Elwood, 

Chief Engineer . 



Officers and Members of the Fire Department. 

George W. Goodall, Charles King, John H. Johnson, 
William H. Gorbutt — Fire Commisssioners . 

W. D. Elwood — Chief Engineer. 

E. L. Corbin — Acting Secretary. 

J. H. Larcombe — Superintendent Fire Alarm Tele- 
graph. 

H. H. Bishop, H. R. W\\QQ—Oferators. 



Steam Engine Company, No. i. 

• C. T. Elwood — Foreman. 

I. H. Hurdle — Engineer. 

John S. Brent — Fireman. 

J. W. Edmonson — Hostler. 

H. C. Hensley, G. E. Ward, T. E. Venable, W. D. 
Buckley, C. Hayden, J. F. Bright — Extramen. 



55 

C. Day, W. Fister, F. Fugitt, W. Rowland, G. Ed- 
wards, J. V. McGraw, J. C. McConnell — Supernufne- 
raries. 



Steam Engine Company, No. 2. 
John Dickerson — Foreman. 
Martin Cronin — Engineer. 
George S. Langley — Fireman. 
R. T. Johnson — Hostler. 

Thomas Stone, F. H. Myers, Charles Gottenkieng, 
John E. Piggott, John Johnson, Levi Moulding — Ex- 
tramen. 

John C. Clary, R. Williams, E. Grinnel, Lemuel 
Wheeden, R. Lincoln — Su^pernumeraries . 



Steam Engine Company, No. 3. 

James Lowe — Foreman. 

Daniel Barron — Engineer. 

Jasper A. Smith — Fireman. 

M. Y^2.nQ.— Hostler. 

C. Kaufman, Frank Lewis, John Gedney, Frank 
Fry, Walter Cox, Charles Meads — Extramen. 

S. C. Wailes, George JefFers, James Hess, John 
Kane, James Frazier, E. B. Gatton — Supernumeraries. 



Hook and Ladder Company, No. i. 

Julius Strobel — Foreman. 

G. N. Nicholson — Tillerman. 

R. J. Mo^xoy—Hostler. 

W. Nicholson, John Dawson, R. W. Waters, James 



56 
Elwood, William S. Crew, William Anderson — Extra- 



men. 



Joseph Lewis, James Jones, George Palant, P. 
Malone, Arthur McNally, George Mulloy, T. Houri- 
h an — Stiver n um eraries . 



Office of the Fire Alarm Telegraph, 

Washington, June 30th, 1869. 

To the Honorable Mayor, Boards of Aldermen and 
Common Council of the City of Washington : 

Gentlemen : — I herewith submit my annual report 
of the operations of the Fire Alarm Telegraph for the 
year ending June 30, 1869, together with such recom- 
mendations and suggestions as in my judgment the in- 
terests of the city demand, to which I invite your atten- 
tion. 

Notwithstanding the bad condition in which I found 
the telegraph at the commencement of the year, the 
lines and the cffice requiring a large amount of re- 
pairs, as well as the renovation of the office, together 
with the fact that it was found necessary to change the 
locks upon the alarm boxes and fit new keys to them, 
the expenses will be found to compare favorably with 
those of former 3^ears, and to fall considerably below the 
sum appropriated by you for that purpose, which was 
based upon the experience of previous years. 

The following synopsis will be found to include all 
money expended, under its appropriate head : 

Rent, _----- 

Fuel and light, _ _ _ _ - 

Repairs of telegraph, - - - - 
Battery expenses, ----- 
Incidentals, - _ - - - 

Office and office furniture, 
New keys for alarm boxes, - - - 

Total, - - - - $1,397 27 



$250 


00 


z^z 


94 


352 


55 


195 


62 


46 


77 


122 


64 


115 


75 



57 

I desire to submit to 3''ou the following estimate of ex- 
penses for the ensuing year : 

Rent, - ------ $250 00 

Fuel and light, _ _ - - - 300 00 

Repairs of telegraph, ----- 600 00 

Battery expenses, ----- 300 00 

Incidentals, ------ 150 00 



Total, - - - - $1,600 00 

Allow me to call your attention to the fact that for the 
last few years the city has been rapidly extending its 
limits, and that large districts, containing valuable 
property, have not in them a single alarm box, 

I would name as localities where boxes are urgently 
needed the following : 

At or near 20th street west and E street north. 
i6th " " " P " " 
9th " " " Q^ " " 
Newjersey ave. " P " " 

Mar3dandWe. " F " " 

East Capitol st. " 12th " east. 

Others might be added, but these may suffice for the 
present. 

Another matter demands your attention, viz : The 
citizens are growing restive under the use of their roofs 
as a support tor the wires, which causes leaks and in- 
jures seriously their property, entailing expenses upon 
the city, which are rapidly increasing, and will in the 
end cost far more than it will now to alter the wires. 
Peremptor}' demands have been made in many cases for 
their removal. 

There is still another matter to which I feel that I must 
allude, although I do it under protest to m}^ own feel- 
ings. The law, as it now stands, provides for the ap- 
pointment of one Superintendent and two operators for 
the Fire Alarm Telegraph. No city in the Union hav- 
ing a Fire Alarm Telegraph has less than three opera- 
tors, many of them four, and they all have in addition to 
these three or four operators a man for repairs. 



58 

I was tauntingly asked by a former Fire Commission- 
er of this city, "You did not think that you would have 
to do your own repairing, I guess?" Such, however, is 
the case. It is impossible to pick up, at the moment when 
needed, a man who can intelligently perform even the 
plainest work required, and, of necessity, the Superinten- 
dent must himself do it, or it must remain undone ; and, 
in addition to this, owing to the scarcity of operators, he 
is forced to take on himself the night duty in the office. 

While upon this subject, let me pursue it a step fur- 
ther. I informed you above that no city had less than 
three operators and a repair man ; let me add that their 
salaries are in almost all the cities respectively, super- 
intendent, $2,000 ; operators, $1,500 ; and repairman, 
$800 to $1,000 ; and this is about the compensation to 
men of corresponding qualifications in Ihe commercial 
telegraph offices in all the cities of the country. I need 
offer no comment, but simply ask you to note these facts, 
and follow the promptings of your judgment. 

Allow me, in this connection, to bear testimony to the 
efficiency and faithfulness of the operators who have 
cordially and earnestly assisted me in every emergency. 

There have been, during the year, 109 alarms of fire, 
of which 22 were false and 3 were test alarms ; 84 being 
from fires, many of which were so insignificant that they 
might be added, the list of false. The large number of 
purely false alarms should receive your attention, in 
order that such legislation may be had as will lead to 
the detection and punishment of the authors. 

I remain yours, 

J. H. Larcombe, 

Superintendent. 



REPORT OF THE INTENDANT OF THE 
WASHINGTON ASYLUM. 



Washington Asylum, yune 24, 1869. 
To the Hon. Sayles J. Bowen^ 

Mayor, Washington, D. C: 

Sir : — In compliance with your request, I have the 
honor to transmit herewith statement of the expenditures 
of the Washington Asylum for the present fiscal year, 
amounting in the aggregate to $19,710 70. 

I would respectfullv call your attention to the fact that 
the expenditures of the last fiscal year, under the late 
administration, amounted, I believe, to upwards of $36,000, 
while this year the institution has been maintained on a 
little over one-half that amount ; notwithstanding which, 
I can safely declare without fear of contradiction that the 
inmates have been as well, if not better, fed and clothed, 
and are as happy and comfortable and under better dis- 
cipline than they have ever been heretofore. 

On entering upon the discharge of my duties here, I 
was fully determined to manage the institution upon the 
principles of honesty and economy ; and it is well known 
that in the beginning I was sun-ounded with difficulties 
which appeared almost insurmountable. I found neither 
money nor provisions on hand, and the institution was so 
deeply in debt that its credit was almost gone. Further- 
more, every department was under the immediate control 
of irresponsible persons, who were not only extravagant, 
but, in many instances, appropriated and sold for their 
own special use and benefit the provisions issued in bulk 
for distinbution to the inmates. Moreover, there were no 
books to show either what had been purchased or issued, 
and I found that the reports presented weekly to the Board 
of Commissioners were so grossly incorrect that some 
forty-three (43) inmates were reported present over and 
above what were actually in the institution. 



Hi) 

Under these circumstances, my first duty was to find 
out how many people were actually under my charge, and 
the exact amount of provisions required for their con- 
sumption ; to dismiss those whom I had reason to believe 
were engaged in pilfering and stealing ; and, while hold- 
ing all to a strict accountability, to exercise a personal 
supervision over every department, and see that ever}^ 
article purchased for and issued to the inmates was put to 
its legitimate use, and that nothing was stolen or wasted, 
either in the almshouse or in the apartments of the 
Intendant. 

In proof of the fact that I have succeeded in my en- 
deavors to reorganize the institution, I, certainly with 
some degree of pride, refer to the figures showing the 
expenses of the past and current fiscal years, and with 
the thorough knowledge I now possess of the institution 
and its inmates, together with the prospect of a consider- 
able reduction in the price of provisions, I feel assured 
that I can still further reduce the expenses during the 
ensuing 3'ear. 

About $300, expenses of the small-pox hospital, will 
have to be deducted from the aggregate here presented, 
as that hospital has been maintained during the past year 
out of the appropriation tor the AsA^um. In this con- 
nection I would respectfully call your attention to the 
fact that, in the last published report of the Board of 
Commissioners, which was for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1867, the small-pox hospital is charged with an 
expenditure of nearl}^ $7,000; while I am informed that 
the actual expenses of the hospital for that year (exclu- 
sive of the salary of the attendant, which is paid from 
the general fund,) amounted to considerably less than 
$1,000. 

I am, sir, very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

Jos. S. Martin. 



Ex'pendihires of the Washington Asyhum during the fiscal year 1868-0, 
ending June 30. 

FHIST QITARTEK. AMOtTNT. 

S. B. Wait $322 00 

Ridenour& Ban- 586 93 



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Rid en our it Ban 

Rideiiour & Barr 

R. Eicliboiu 

J S.J. Carroll 

R. Coheu 

Knee.'^si & Norlleet . ... 

J. H. Garges 

Geo. W. Goodall 

Geo. W. Goodall 

J. W. Selby & Co 

Fninkliu Eugiuo Company, (hoise,) 

T. T. Fowler 

T. T. Fowler , 

SECOND QUARTER. 

Ridenour & Barr 

Dr. Eliot 

Browning & Middleton 

Jokn Soden 

Browning & Middlelon 

National Republican 

Kneessi & Norfleet 

N. Brewer & Co 

R. Coben 

Josepb Carroll 

J. H. Garges , 

L. Martin 

H. I Gregory 

Dr. Sears 

R. Eicbboru 

Sarab A. P. MMrtin 

Jobu Socens 

Jobn Grant 

Julius Wallace 

James Welcli 

D. F. Atkins 

Dr. Sears 

THIRD QUARTER. 

Browning & Middleton 

Browning & Middleton 

Sarab A. P. Martin 

Wasbington and Georgetown Coal Companj^ 

Browning & Middleton , 

Jos. J. Carroll 

N. Brewer & Co 

W. L. Sears 



537 


61 


539 


50 


311 


62 


932 


02 


978 


70 


66 


00 


70 40 


55 


65 


54 85 


779 


36 


150 00 


397 


15 


831 


38 


544 89 


35 


00 


533 


98 


50 00 


700 67 


8 


75 


2 


50 


208 43 


27 


50 


980 


57 


34 57 


67 12 


79 42 


329 


86 


223 


81 


90 


00 


25 


00 


120 


00 


125 


00 


10 


00 


200 


00 


849 


95 


521 


97 


578 


15 


45 00 


140 


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445 


66 


881 


55 


172 


35 


409 


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Browning & Micldleton 690 85 

Jno. A. Baker 60 03 

L. Martin 43 19 

L. Martin 8 36 

David Atkins 129 00 

*Michl. McClure 25 00 

*Thos. Can- 5 00 

*Jno. Craig 35 80 

*Henry Monroe 12 05 

*Walter Smith 3 00 

Wm. A. Carroli 50 00 

John Gi-ant 60 00 

Henry Monroe ^. 40 00 

Anthony Gray 25 00 

R. Eiclihorn 109 17 

H. I. Gregory 12 15 

FOURTH QtiARTEU. 

Browning* Middleton 460 57 

Jno. O. Evans 40 56 

G. W. Goodall 32 90 

L. Martin 32 15 

R. Cohen 38 75 

Approximating amount of bills becoming due this quarter 2,527 93 

Total 119,645 66 

•Paid to Jos. S, Martin. 



Recapttulution of expenditures, Ji»cal year 1868-9. 

EXPENDITURES. 

First quarter f 6 613 16 

Second quarter 5,307 02 

Third quarter 4,592 62 

Fourth quarter 3,132 86 

Total $19,645 66 

RECEIPTS. 

Amount tle}X)sited with the First National 

Bank $12,067 98 

Drawn by checks, 11,8^3 03 

Cashinbank 204 95 

12,067 98 

Paid by checks of Mayor Bowen •• 4,253 97 

Remaining unpaid ,..,», 3,823 71 

$19,645 66 



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